When two paupers get married it is the beginning of a generation of beggars.
I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic hypothesis sought in vain for hundreds and thousands of years. The isolation and counting of gaseous ions...
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and happiness of the people... There is no king or queen bee distinguished from all the others by size or figure or...
In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could formerly be adduced as seemingly comparable illustrations of the phenomenon "Variation." Time has shown thi...
Some people say he engineered his own arrest to gain an insight into modern methods of policing for a thriller he had planned. But you know what happens to artistic rats in prison: they have their rectums stretched, and not by overindulgence in Miche...
[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library. To the teachers and librarians and everyone on the frontlin...
Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much 'catching up' to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire life just reading all the classics, or one preten...
For so long, maybe all my life, I thought only a house could make you whole. I thought I was nothing without an interesting address. I thought I was only as good as my color scheme, my drawer pulls, my floors....it's the knowledge that a house can be...
Ignorance; lack of knowledge or lack of curiosity.
Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around.
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
The higher knowledge, the higher responsibility
Experience is based on knowledge, not by years
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.
